STEVE Hansen launched a staunch defence of his position as Wales coach after the humiliating defeat to Scotland.

The Wales coach pulled no punches in his blunt assessment of where the buck stops as his side face the prospect of a Six Nations whitewash.

The New Zealander knows he is in the firing line as his side went down to their third defeat on the trot in the tournament.

"You can sack the coach if you want, but what will that achieve?" said Hansen.

"You can sack the players and bring new players in, but that wouldn't do anything.

"I am thick-skinned enough to handle it and anything that comes my way.

"People need to buy a big bloody bottle of reality.

"We can't change the problems we have and everybody knows what they are.

"Reality is reality and we know it is hard. "I shoulder it as anybody does in any job in any walk in life. And it goes right through the team involved from myself as head coach to the baggage man.

"We all feel it. You have to deal with it. And that runs through the team.

"But I am the head coach or top man and I accept that responsibility. I just have to get on with the job. I enjoy winning as much as anyone, but we obviously aren't there yet." Wales needed a victory against the Scots to salvage some pride in this season's Six Nations campaign.